Although Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is firmly back on Earth, that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop paying attention to the International Space Station.

The second half of the Expedition 36 crew blasted up to the ISS yesterday. American Karen Nyberg, Russian Fyodor Yurchikhin and Italian Luca Parmitano completed a six-person team who will continue the experiments and general awesomeness that happens aboard the orbiting rig.

Here’s the new arrivals being greeted after their Soyuz capsule hatch opened:

The trio join American Christopher Cassidy and Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Aleksandr Misurkin, who were all part of Hadfield’s Expedition 35 as well. When they leave in September 2013, a Soyuz capsule will deliver three more astronauts and Expedition 37 will begin.

Hadfield took it upon himself to be especially accessible and communicate with we Earthlings, but his absence shouldn’t stop you from following the exciting activity on the ISS. This is your guide to keeping the space lovefest going.

On Twitter: Out of the new crew, Nyberg and Parmitano are the ones to follow with fairly active accounts. Parmitano tweets in both English and Italian and Nyberg was the first to tweet since arriving on the ISS.